What's New

Please note we only add significant updates here, the site is updated continuously.

22 March 2015As part of a general facelift for the whole of JCR-UK taking several months, the webpages for all of the
London congregations, whether in the East End & City (nearly 150 congregations)
or
elsewhere in Greater London (over 300 congregations), have been enhanced
and re-formatted.

5 March 2015Searchable records of the Leeds Orthodox Jewish Cemeteries Databases
have been revised and updated to include
all burials and consecrations to 31 January 2015. Several hundred new or
revised records have been uploaded in respect of the
UHC Cemetery, the
BHH Cemetery and the New Farnley Cemeteries.

15 January 2015Added copy of a 1965 publication, Holy Law Congregation - One
Hundred Years, commemorating the
100th anniversary of the founding of Holy
Law Congregation, Manchester, which include a history of the Congregation,
photographs, lists of congregational officers and leaders of the community and
much more.

21 October 2014The recently-created
Jewish Gilroes website is now affiliated to JCR-UK.
The website (a project funded by the Heritage Lottery
Fund) includes a full catalogue and database of all
the burials in the Gilroes Jewish Cemetery of the
Leicester
Hebrew Congregation (approximately 820 interments dating
from 1902), genealogical search facilities, photographs of all extant
headstones, fascinating stories of the lives of a number of those buried
in the cemetery and much more.

20 October 2014Added searchable records of the burials, including photographs of all
headstones, in the
Harrogate Stonefall Jewish Cemetery (of the Harrogate Hebrew Congregation),
comprising approximately 180 interments and re-interments from 1964 to 2014,
as well as 6 Jewish servicemen buried in
the Stonefall Military Cemetery.

17 August 2014Added searchable records of approximately 350 burials, including photographs of all
headstones, in the Leeds
Sinai Synagogue Cemetery, a section of the Harehills Cemetery, Leeds,
for use by the
Sinai (Reform) Synagogue, from early 1950's to 2014.

30 July 2014Added searchable records of the burials, including photographs of all
headstones, in the
Doncaster Jewish Cemetery, in use from 1930 to 2006.

9 July 2014The 1851 Anglo-Jewish
Database (part of
JCR-UK since 2012) has been substantially expanded and enriched. Its 29,000
entries cover
approximately 90% of the Jewish population resident in the British Isles in
1851. Apart from some 500 completely new entries; the Database now shows the
post-1851 residence for 44% of entries (up from 37%); the year of marriage for
almost 10,000 entries (up from 8,600); and the year of death for almost 8,000
entries (up from 5,600), plus a number of other enhancements, all following a
hefty quality check of data.

22 June 2014
We have reformatted and redesigned the on-line presentation of Professor
Cecil Roth's invaluable 1950 works, "The
Rise of Provincial Jewry", which details the origins of 42
provincial Jewish communities throughout the British Isles, 1740-1840 -
available on JCR-UK as part of the Susser Archive.

8 April 2014
Now added, a paper entitled "Penzance Synagogue - A Brief History" by Susan Soyinka.
This document, which includes a detailed history and current status of the
synagogue building, as well as photographs and plans, was prepared to support an
application to English Heritage to revise the listing of the building that
includes the former synagogue.

19 March 2014The webpages for each of the congregations in
London's East End & City (nearly 150 congregations) have been enhanced
and expanded to include, amongst other things, a description of the location of the congregation,
a history of
the location, and details of the former local and parish authorities, the registration districts and,
where available, details of marriage registers.

29 January 2014Added searchable records of over 6,500 burials, including approximately 5,000 photographs of headstones, in
the Leeds
United Hebrew Congregation
(UHC) Cemetery, which also includes a number of
other congregations, from 1840 to 2013.

28 January 2014Added searchable records of over 2,200 burials, including approximately 2,000 photographs of headstones, in
the
Leeds Beth Hamedrash Hagadol (BHH)
Cemetery, which also includes a number of
other congregations, from 1952 to 2013.

8 January 2014
A database of Early London-based Insurance Policies - Jewish Surnames
has been added to the All-UK Database.
The database contains over 26,000 eighteenth and nineteenth century
entries, with notes that include full names, addresses, dates, occupations and
other information
of the policy holders. The original dataset was compiled by the late George
Rigal (who died in 2012), who spent many years of scrupulous research combing
through old insurance records in the Guildhall Library in London, seeking out
policies taken out by Jews. The database was prepared for JCR-UK by Petra
Laidlaw, to whom Mr. Rigal had provided with a copy of the dataset to assist him
in its publication, and Louise Messik.

19 August 2013Added searchable records of nearly 10,000 burials, including approximately 8,000 photographs of headstones, in
the Leeds
New Farnley Cemeteries, generally in use from 1896 to 2013.

25 June 2013Added Searchable records of 1,577 burials, including photographs of headstones, in
the Southport Jewish Cemetery, 1912-2012, contributed by Andrew Phillips,
added to
All-UK Database.

12 April 2013JCR-UK's already extensive (and continually growing) Bibliography
section has now been expanded to include works on the Middle Period of
Anglo-Jewish history (1290-1656).

20 February 2013
On the community pages of approximately 100 communities, provided a breakdown,
by decade (1760's through 1910's), of the number of records on the
1851 Anglo Jewry Database.

31 January 2013
Provided details on the Greater London
home page and on approximately 50 other community and congregation pages
of the contents of the
All-UK Database
that are specifically associated with such community or congregation.

1 January 2012
All pages relating to the Oxford
community (many of which were contributed by Harold Pollins) have been
reorganised and a number of new articles added including extensive
press reports relating to the Oxford Jewish community and press reports
for WWII.

22 December 2011Created congregation page for the Andrade Synagogue, a 19th
century independent Sephardi Synagogue in Islington, London, and added
extracts of press
reports relating to this congregation and the Andrade Family.

19 December 2011The redesign of this website, commenced in October 2011, is largely completed, although a number of
minor
modifications
continue to be made.

22 October 2007
Extracts from the Jewish press relating to the Barrow-in-Furness Jewish community
(1877 to 1943); the Chester
Jewish community (1894 to 1906) and the North Shields Jewish community
(1907 to 1988).

7 August 2007
Separate webpages have now been added for more than one hundred former congregations in the
East End of London(London
Borough of Tower Hamlets). A Street Directory
has also been added covering congregations in the East End as well as the City of London.

12 July 2007
Extracts from the Jewish press from 1899 to 1938 relating to the Isle of Man Jewish community.

20 June 2007
Separate webpages have now been added for congregations in the
London Borough of Hackney
(including thenumerous ultra-orthodox
congregations in and around Stamford Hill). A Street Directory
has also been added covering congregations in Stamford Hill, Clapton, Stoke
Newington and neighbouring areas of North London.

31 May 2007
Extracts from the Jewish press from 1842 to 1959 relating to the Dover Jewish community.

28 February 2007
Extracts from the Jewish press from 1847 to 1970 relating to the
Great Yarmouth Jewish community.
Article added in respect of the Jewish community in
Addlestone.

10 December 2006
London synagogues may also now be viewed according to the
London Borough and locality in which
they are situated and according to the synagogue organisation to which they are affiliated (the latter listing also
includes provincial synagogues affiliated to such organisations).

13 June 2006
As all of Ireland was part of the United Kingdom until 1922, we have now included
reference to the communities in the Republic of Ireland.
Over twenty congregations in four towns (Dublin,
Cork,
Limerick and Waterford) have been
added. In all cases, the Jewish communities in such towns were established
prior to 1922.

29 May 2006
A new section on the community in the Channel Islands
has been added and the section on the Isle of Man
community (including articles and list of grave inscriptions in browsable form) has been reorganized and updated.

23 August 2005Communities throughout North-West England, including Merseyside, Lancashire (not
including Manchester), Cheshire and Cumbria,
have been reorganized and updated, with additional communities and congregations
added and fresh data inserted. The communities include, but are not
limited to
Liverpool,
Barrow,
Blackburn,
Blackpool,
Burnley,
Chester,
Preston,
Macclesfield,
Sefton and
Wirral.

11 August 2005
Links for all communities to and from the cemetery information for such
communities on the International
Jewish Cemetery Project of the International Association of Jewish
Genealogical Societies. There are also now links for dozens of communities
to relevant articles in the on-line Jewish Encyclopedia.com.

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